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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: using set in a csh script
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Date: 24 Oct 90 23:18:36 GMT
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In article <21752@dime.cs.umass.edu>, martha@cs.umass.edu (Martha S. DasSarma) writes:
|> 	What happens is that the set deletes the extra spaces I put 
|> 	in the set.

  Wrong.  The spaces are not deleted when you do the set, they are deleted
when you do the echo, since the echo command echoes each of its arguments,
separating each of them by one space.

	% set t="Mon   5"
	% echo $t
	Mon 5
	% echo "$t"
	Mon   5

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